Unusual molecular conformation could help explain RNA's versatility

Despite being made from a relatively simple set of building blocks, ribonucleic acid (RNA) has a broad array of complex ...
Nanowerk

Nucleobases: Building Blocks of Life and Genetic Information

This image illustrates the chemical structures of the five main nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The pyrimidines, thymine (DNA), uracil (RNA), and cytosine are shown on top while the purines, adenine ...
Nanowerk

Purines - Key Components of DNA, RNA, and Cellular Metabolism

This image illustrates the chemical structure of a purine molecule, highlighting the numbering of the carbon and nitrogen atoms. The purine structure consists of a pyrimidine ring (positions 1 to 6) ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Quantum Mechanical Mechanism of DNA Forming and Replicating ()

Previous researches on DNA included topics of bases, base-pairing, hydrogen bonds, structure, base sequence, dynamics, ...
Nature

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player. Lore has it that the ...